Sci-Fi Fantasy Short Film: "Deus Otiosus (The Idle God)" | DUST
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- In a primitive society, Bryana, a pregnant hunter, loses her husband to pestilence. Exiled from her home, she hunts their god to demand help.
"Deus Otiosus (The Idle God)" by Mat Braddy
Starring Christopher Fairbanks (Guardians of the Galaxy Alien3, Batman) and Sèverine
Howell-Meri (Amazon Prime’s Hanna)
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"Deus Otiosus (The Idle God)" Credits:
Written and Directed by Mat Braddy
Producer - Louis Savy
Co-producer - Marta Calderón
Editor - Colin Goudie, BFE
Director of Photography - Lorenzo Levrini
Production Designer - Daniel Vincent
Costume Designer - Jasmin Ada Knox
Visual Effects - George Kirby
Sound Design - Fionn Lucas
Composer - Ross Euan Davidson
First Assistant Director - Harry Kirby
Second Assistant Director - Martin Tunnicliffe-Squirell
CAST
Bryana - Sèverine Howell-Meri
Priestess LILA - Margareta Szabo
Deus - Christopher fairbank
Peasant - Martin Tunnicliffe-Squirrell
Raven - Mordred
CREW
Casting - Shakyra Dowling
Story Development - Stéphanie Joalland
Concept Artist - Alejandro Silva
Set Decorator - Rob King
Art Department - Billy Dudley, Daniel Marlow, & Thomas Nicholas
Second unit DP - Thomas terminet
Camera First Assistant - Anıl Duru
Camera Second Assistant - Anastasia Cherkasyuk
Key Grip - Giovanni Mattei
Steadicam Operator - Domenico Palomba
Gaffers - Harry Buck & Oliver Craig
Lighting Technicians - Alex Magill & Marina Lewin
Ross Brown Lighting Trainee - George Castle
Sound Recordist - Blai Escayola
Bosch Sound Assitant - Nick Grant
Script Supervisor - Louis Savy
Hair and Makeup - Rebecca Hall
Assistant Hair and Makeup - Leanne White
Raven Wrangler Parrot and Seal
Driver - Bruce Webb
Stills Photographer - Maite de Orbe
Production Assistants - Michelle Braddy, Charlie Collier, & Mitchel Burrows Assistant Editor - Jan Schroeder
FILMED ON LOCATION
Celtic Harmony Camp snettisham, norfolk Gibbard Gardens Swordtail Studios
Full credits can be found at theidlegod.com
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Hey Dusters! I'm the Writer/Director of Deus. The team and I are totally jazzed to see our group effort hosted here on Dust. Please fire away with any questions or prayers and lets see if the Deus answers...
This is awesome Mat congratulations to you and everyone involved in creating this, very cool indeed. Martin
Loved to see my old home town there. Great story.
Fantastic mate! I had the exact same idea as this a long time ago. I always though about writing it into story, but leaving the reality of the technology intentionally vague.
@@vurtigoneiii275 It's kinda based on Mr Elon Musk brain ai interface. If you 'embody' ai in a human body, won't it take dune of our weaknesses? The need for power and control...?
@@JonathanFrost Where are you from??
This short was terrific, it had the potential for a full movie. Crazy, the beginning felt like the past, but when she came down the ladder, we saw the brick walls. Then she discovers the books with the writing and you knew something was up. What a fantastic idea you had. I was really getting into it and it ended. We were left wanting much more, thanks.
Stolen from 'Cloud Atlas' .
Unfortunately the end of most Dust shorts is the credits, as the viewer tries to imagine possible endings.I keep promisig myself that I will stop putting myself through this only to stumble across a short film that has a good storyline with a thought provoking ending and keep trudjing on!
@@vincemartinez171 ditto🙃
BINGO
This Medieval-like, post-tech apocalypse story should be crowd-funded for at least a three-part feature series. Great story, acting and direction. Thanks! 👍
No need. Just play Horizon Zero Dawn.
A brilliant piece of work. By far, a better storyline than most post apocalyptic stories I've seen on Dust lately. I hope you consider making this a set of films continuing this tale.
+1000!!
These comments that make comparisons are missing the point. It's all art
Agreed
Thank you for such kind words😎
Dust manages to put more substance into these brilliant short films than Hollywood does in ten mindless superhero repeats
Dust doesn't produce. Dust just displays
You got that right
@@EmiL3TageWach
Correct. I've lost count the number of times you and others have had to reply to silly comments to set straight the understanding.
I'm not quite sure if that's a hundred percent accurate. If you look at the list original movies released now that Hollywood has their hand in more original films are released now than there ever has been in Hollywood history. I think the problem is audiences aren't going to go see them. Look for me a few months back when I saw the movie The Last Duel only me and my other friend were the only ones who wanted to go see it. Me personally I think people get stuck in a rut about which movies they like and they don't go outside their comfort zone.
In my little backwards town there are people that won't see a movie unless it's a Blockbuster. It is funny to me because they didn't go see Three Billboards they didn't go see Nomad didn't see The Last Duel they didn't see a Blade Runner 2049 or Dune. Then they want to complain about the fact that Hollywood releases too many sequels. But hey that's just my opinion.
@@quickenmyend truth. As a somewhat cinephile , it saddens me that these lowkey movies that hit the theaters don’t get noticed much. Yet it also is a great experience sitting alone in a theater taking in all the sounds and visuals personally without distractions. Hollywood has definitely stepped up their game recently.
Amazing short, well done to the filmmakers for pulling this off - hope there's a feature coming soon!
I remain amazed at the quality of acting, and the other aspects, in so many of these shorts. Deus Otiosus really came to life - then I found myself considering.
Well done to all. Thanks DUST
One of the best short films on Dust! Beautifully written with no loose ends.
Thank you for watching - and appreciating the writing!
I said it before and I will say it again, "Always be nice to birds because you never know when they are being controlled by a technology driven god/gardener"
❤️
as in the tale of the albatross and the mariner..well songed by the maidens
makes you wonder how long some of those birds or insects have been here and by whose craft they were concocted
What does this god/gardener have against my windshield?
Birds aren't real.
Now this is what I call a great sci-fi short. At first I thought it was going to be about Merlin until she grabbed his head piece, wow what a shocker...
I really like the ambiguous ending. Is she going to be a good "god" or a bad one? At least, it wasn't immediately obvious to me what her intentions were after being "enlightened". I like it when things are left to the watcher/reader to ponder these things. I really don't like how a lot of modern media does the thinking for you. It's especially bad in Young Adult fiction, which usually focuses on "the feels" with the world/tropes just propped up around it without any reflection/introspection. Anyway, well done! I enjoyed what to me is science fiction functioning at its best. 😎
I think the AI will learn from its bodies physical emotional attachment to the coming child - how that changes its policies I'm not sure...
I think you misunderstand how much control the vehicle (human) has over the driver (AI) in this story. The human in this case is an interface to the world which may have some influence through its experiences but ultimately it is small in comparison to the "godlike" power the AI wields. I have to admit that the short does seem to be trying to tell two different stories at the same time leading to what seems to be female empowerment through subjection to a greater amoral power. Makes for a confusing narrative.
I don't have enough words to express how much I enjoyed this short film. I find every single second magnificent. Thoughts and images that give so much food for thought about our past, present and future.
Thank you so much for those words and watching our film 😎
@@venusXL 😉✌️
London Eye was better built than I thought.
Beautiful sci-fi short! Amazing to be able to watch in on DUST 😊Congrats to the team!!!
Thank-you so much for your support and patience guiding me through this project!
I really enjoyed that. The old man needs more villain roles. He has a great voice!
You need to watch Lady Macbeth where he delivers a fantastic performance as the villain.
Christopher Fairbank
Born
4 October 1953 (age 68)
Hertfordshire, England
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1978-present
Was this a film on nature versus nurture? I wonder? The planet, the mother, the plague and the hereditary line of wizards(?): We seed; we flower; we fruit.
I like his non RP roles.
I got to this via IMDB/Guardians of the Galaxy/The Broker/Christopher Fairbank/Deus Otiosus: The Idle God - he is really good, as indeed is Deus Otiosus.
I have to say I appreciate 'Seed, Flower, Fruit' much more that our traditional 'Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust' .
Lovely to work with mat and his team, well done for all the awards!
We could never have done it without you and your amazing team at the Celtic Harmony location - highly recommend other filmmakers check this beautiful place out!
Very nice.
The AI may not have been “kind”, but it had seen what had happened in the past, it was preserving the human race and saving it from itself.
We REALLY got a kick out of the surveillance bird. It was a funny reference to the “Birds Aren’t Real” meme. Peter McIndoe is a marketing genius 😂
Thanks for watching - it's hard to argue with the AI right now...
@@venusXL I know we’re talking about fiction here, and your beautiful, short film… but honestly, you aren’t kidding.
The inability of the human race to reach homeostasis with the environment is a catastrophic scenario for the future of the human race (as you well know). There are no two ways about it.
When people were nomadic and consisted of small wandering groups that would strip an area, move on, and allow that area to heal before perhaps rotating back to that site, our overconsumption wasn’t really an issue.
But now, with large cities, the unceasing development of pristine land in the pursuit of dwindling resources (including transforming biodiverse areas into monocultures) and the Western way of life being exported across the globe (particularly China and India)… the future looks more than a little grim.
When one considers that the US makes up approximately 5% of the global population but consumes about 25% of the resources produced, it doesn’t take a math major to figure out that those numbers are simply unsustainable. What happens now that larger countries have adopted our single-use disposable goods mentality?
We don’t want to say the future is a hopeless scenario. People are amazing and beautiful, incredibly creative and adaptable… but they are also tribal, and competitive, and people aren’t really in charge so much as multinational and monied interests (i.e. corporations) are running the show through the manipulation of the political process in order to please their investors next quarter.
A.I. could literally save us. A benevolent A.I. that is. Hopefully we can achieve such a thing. And we need to get it right the first time. The last thing we need is a malevolent Heinlein manifestation… hopefully we land closer to what Asimov envisioned.
Time will tell.
And thank you for this beautiful story.
Edit: typos
@@avrtasmr3563 Thank you so much for engaging in this topic so eloquently. These are very much the issues that were on my mind when writing 🤓
@@venusXL No problem, thanks for taking the time to read our rambling response. Best of luck in your future endeavors!
It is different, varied and well run. The staging, the photography, the music, the setting and those little details (that make one doubt between past / future or lack of budget; example: grass cutting for a golfer in times of runes) very well resolved. The interpretation is very good. Congratulations to all.
Ah shucks - thanks for watching 😁
@@venusXL Thanks a lot to you all for posting 🙂.
Superbly written and directed short film. Well done Mat! The VFX are not bad either! 😏
Literally could not have done this without you lads! Thanks so much for helping me realise a dream 🤓
The quality on this one speaks for itself, from the script, to the shots, to the performances, to the palettes. Certified feature film material. And oh, what an ending!
I couldn't help but admire how well manicured the lawn was during the funeral.
Great short, beautifully shot - can't wait to see the next project.
Christopher Fairbank acts as good as in The Fifth Element.
Check out Lady Macbeth for an amazing performance from him
@@venusXL Thanks for the tip, I’ve just watched it 👌
I have seen more.talent here in these short films, than I have seen in the last ten years big screen. Well done.
I love how the book she finds seems to explain why her world is the way it is. I came searching for this specific video, having been thinking about it lately from watching it long ago for the first time. LOVE THIS!
The girl has an excellent acting skills 👍
A powerful message there. People might want to watch this before having 4+ children
Wow, it's impressive. I like the tone. Technology tells us the truth, but also can ruin our life. Sometimes, the truth is not really true, so we have to learn how to deal with it with a proper attitude.
I really need to see more of this story! Please don't keep me waiting !
So she becomes a goa'uld of sorts, via technology rather than a symbiote.
INCREDIBLE
This is one of the few DUST stories that left me satisfied with it's presentation. And I want more.
I agree with other DUSTERS. This needs a 3 to maybe 5 series. Has a very good story line. Needs more telling. Thanks DUST for bringing this to us DUSTERS.
AWESOME! I could sit down for an hour or two of this Movie!
Very interesting. Being a septuagenarian, I must say things have changed much in the way sci/fi and fantasy/fi are presented. I may have read early stuff before my household even had a tv;-) A black and white tv lol at that. Now look. Things have changed. Thinkers and dreamers? not so much. Jolly good and cheers mate. Goos show.
Well it's a genre always dreaming of a future. With the information at hand today, maybe our dreams are darker?
The Gardiner/Deus is the actor from "Guardians of the Galaxy." He played "The Broker," who reneged on the sale of the Power Stone from Peter Quill.
Can't expect to hit nothin when you draw your bow with a fist... this is fantasy 101 stuff. Killin me smalls.
We thought the same thing when we saw that grip 🤦♂️
Still a beautiful, little film however
I completely missed that. :D I see so many pictures and stuff where somebody is aiming a bow and has the arrow nocked to the bow wrong and so on. I remember being forced to take archery class in grade school. Back then I never saw the point - of course I REALLY sucked - but at least I learned how to properly knock an arrow and draw a bow and fire it.
I'm loving all the archery comments - I didn't think anyone would notice or care - lesson learnt for this pup director 😁
@@venusXL Otherwise the film itself is wonderful. I thought that the main actress was lovely and did a great job with the role. It also just occurred to me that what's happening is a transition from a basically heartless patriarch god to a potentially merciful mother goddess. :D
That went in an unexpected direction 💢
Great Short Fim, suspenseful, with brilliance all over it. Great job!!
This is a brilliant short film, one of the very best I've seen on Dust. A very talented fillmmaker to watch out for.
I am a huge fan of the culling concept. Because it's something that from a completely logical/data-based perspective, makes perfect sense. You limit/regulate the population of humanity to keep us in balance with the world and prevent most problems such as resource decline, wars, pollution, etc. But at the same time it is entirely counter-point to our basic empathy and emotions as humans. So it is such a great narrative point in terms of writing/storytelling since it's one of those subjects where you can technically portray either side as being correct, or create a dark sense of foreboding where who is right/wrong doesn't matter, but the methods being carried out (and whether or not successful) create this grim prospect of a world.
Psychopathic comment
To future and current filmmakers:
LIGHTING AND PACING ARE IMPORTANT!
If your audience can’t see shit, then you have wasted the shot. If you are flashing the scene, you have wasted the shot.
If you are wasting the shot, you ruin the film.
Your audience needs a moment to register what they are seeing to react.
This short is an excellent example of what NOT to do.
The lighting is too dark. The scenes are so fast hardly any information is registering and the characters have zero time to have an effect on the plot.
Do NOT copy this film because you will waste your talents.
Superb. Felt like there were echo's of things like Senua's sacrifice, system shock, hitchikers guide and the Village amongst others, though that's probably more my baggage than yours ;) -and it felt totally original in of itself, so please don't take that wrongly. Quality performances from both main actor's - Severine is a beautiful embodiment of the human spirit, delightlfully wilful, Christopher's subtle balance between benevolence and menace is delicious "simply a gardener" haha that was a lovely line perfectly delivered, and of course with secondary meaning as was 'things always appear different with distance'. I even watched it a second time on the trot and got more out of it :) bravo.
Nope - I have the same baggage 😜. Thanks for watching!
Dusts are just getting better and better
Super cool and beautiful short DUST film!!!! 😀😁🤩👍
Also with an actor known to me, that old man with a staff and a strange thing on his head!
And with a very beautiful, attractive woman in the lead role!! 🤩🥰
Didn't expect the twist. Thanks for a great production. Brilliant team work. The talent is there, but why is it not evident in mainstream movies. I'm spreading the word about these "shorts".
Thank you for posting this, it's an excellent short film. Great cinematography and acting. Seriously enjoyed this.
Thanks for watching 😁
Really good. I think the quality of these has been improving, I keep watching some real winners… like this
yeah, I can see the UK as that 100 years from now. Good film. Thank you!
Very good film Mat and co 👍👍
This was well done. I didn't pick up on the post-apocalyptic storyline until she left the village and stopped at the piles of stones with the drawings on them. And when she started crossing the water, then I was positive. I agree with @Kirk Franks in that I also hope that this story continues with additional shorts to add to her story.
FINALLY we get this on YT. Great to re-watch.
Watch it every day. Forever. See how much you like it then :-)
I really like the scenery, the acting & story as well. The hidden message of this is certainly something to ponder.
Well done.
The hidden message is
very well hidden ....
Exquisite, Top notch Science Fiction.
Very good ,, if it is in Hindi language a few million people also watch in India. Thank You ...
Fantastic! It's better than any movie on this topic.
I enjoyed this! Very nicely done!
Is this the sequel to where the kid is kidnapped by the state?
@servant of the Creator in the above reply
Thankyou !
Very nicely done! It is a long time since I've seen such a well made and interesting story. Congratulations to you and you team, and especial "thanks" to the writer! 🙂
Great short, one that would be great if it became a full length feature or ongoing
Well I just binged SEE on Apple so I kinda think they beat me to it 😃
In love with Bryana already...
I'd subscribe on hulu just to watch this!
If there were more episodes, I certainly would be submerged in it now.
Well done. I applaud your excellent creativity & work. Thank you for sharing.
And thank you for watching our film 🤓
interesting short film... i wonder sometimes why these short films are better than most movies now a days..
this is a potentially wonderful series ! VERY WELL DONE
Good film but short. Interesting to see a longer film as in the end I did see that it was set sometime in the far future in London as I can see the Canary wharf tower and the London eye in the background at the end of the film.
Very deep and disturbing storyline. Positively worth considering our future regarding our insatiable thirst for technology.
everybody wants to be God not realizing that is the downfall of mankind - if we could learn to be mankind, we would be the true god that we seek to find.
Regarding the short - well done - good acting and special effects.
Fantastic. Lots of places this could go. Or come from.
Finally, someone using "decimate" correctly!
Excellent short story wih some great themes packed into a short space, well done
I thought this was really great on all fronts. I am confused though; it seems like half the comments are "These shorts are way better than full-length films" or ""I really hope this gets made into a full-length film, miniseries, etc.!" Either way, very good just on its own. :) “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Hey if any producers want to fund either format then the team is ready to fly into action 😜
This was better than Foundation tv series !
Oh that's very kind and untrue - I loved the Emporer clone stories in that 🤓
That was a very fascinating tale!!! I could so relate to her and the hero's journey. For some of us, this is truly the stuff of dreams, although on a slightly higher plane of existence. You guys brought magic to life. TY!!!
Dang! THAT was a jolt!
So AI had taken a human host to keep world population in check, and merely passed from host to host. I love films where the time setting is not what it seems, a book I read as a kid had the word "babylon" in it was really set in the future but 95% of it fooled you to think it was the past.
Loved it. One of the best on Dust. I hate the ones with the gratuitously open endings.
I found this a very engaging story, very well made, quite unique!
I'm blown away, I'm glad I waited for the end what a great idea wow just blown away, remember when movies made you feel that ,just a great idea
Hooked me right from the start and held me right to the end! Good stuff!
I love it :D
Loved it, great ending
Absolutely fucking brilliant, not many people refer back to the gardeners aka the gods as such. Made my day watching this.
Thank you for your service Eric!
Seems like most of these are ripped from old Twilight Zone episodes! And I mean that in the best possible way!! Bravo
Quality all the way through.
Well that was very different loved it.
She looks pretty powerful after putting on the mind interface headgear. Reality is not what it seems ? Some people live in a dream world for sure... Nothing new there. Works of fiction... *sigh* got to appreciate it for what it is.
You think it's the past but it's the future. Nicely done. I would live a follow on from this one definitely. Kudos.
This is a good short that completely subverted my expectations and pulled me in. Thanks to all of you, in front of and behind the camera, involved in its making. ☝️😎
Thanks for watching!
@@venusXL
😊👍
POV you walk through a forest
Fantastic work, a future with new beginnings or it’s end? Thank You!
This was an exceptional one. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Thanks for watching;
Wow, now we're cooking. This is a riveting quality film. Thank you so much, I loved it.
BTW: Normally watch Dust at about 150% speed or more, this one was perfect at normal speed. :)
I'll take that unusual compliment 'So good I watched it at normal speed' :-)
The disturbing part of this plot is that from her ignorance, humanity may once again destroy itself. She is the villain.
Simply Awesome 👍
Something so plausible for our future, if in the end, we get it wrong, and need saving..
Well done!
Nice video. I do love when d God said he was "pruning" d trees